Narrative of an Expedition Into Central Australia, Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6: Together with a Notice of the Province of South Australia, in 1847, כרך 2T. and W. Boone, 1849 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
amongst anchorage animal appeared APPENDIX arrived Australian Bight banks Barrier Range beautiful bird Browne camp Cape Captain Cawndilla channel character coast colony colour continent Cooper's Creek course crossed Darling Depôt distance doubt eastward Encounter Bay exceedingly expedition Eyre fathoms feet flats Flinders Flood Flood's Creek foliis foliolis Fort Grey Gawler Goolwa grass Grey ground harbour head hope horses interior journey Kangaroo Island Lake Torrens land latitude longitude miles Moorundi morning Mount Gambier Mount Lofty Mount Lofty Range Murray Murray River natives night north-west observed party passed plains plumage Port Adelaide Port Lincoln province rain reader remarkable ridges river rock sand hills sandy season seen shore soil South Australia south-west species specimen Spencer's Gulf Stony Desert Stuart tion trees tribe valley vessel Victoria Vincent's Gulf weather Wedge Island westward Williorara wind
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עמוד 84 - This really was nothing ideal: everything both animate and inanimate gave way before it; the horses stood with their backs to the wind and their noses to the ground, without the muscular strength to raise their heads; the birds were mute, and the leaves of the trees under which we were sitting fell like a snow-shower around us.
עמוד 87 - ... that it had been unduly influenced, I put it in the fork of a tree close to me, sheltered alike from the wind and the sun.
עמוד 284 - I saw open downs and plains with a line of river in the midst, the whole extending to the NNW as far as the horizon. Following down the little stream from the valley in which I had passed the night, I soon reached the open country, and during ten successive days, I pursued the course of that river, through the same sort of country, each day as far as my horse could carry me, and in the same direction, again approaching the Tropic of Capricorn. In some parts the river formed splendid reaches, as broad...
עמוד 82 - Circumstances may yet arise to give a value to my recent labours, and my name may be remembered by after generations in Australia, as the first who tried to penetrate to its centre. If I failed in that great object, I have one consolation in the retrospect of my past services. My path...
עמוד 127 - ... perceived above the bank in the greater part of its course, assist in forming some conjecture of what may be within it ; which cannot, as I judge in such case, be other than flat sandy plains or water. The bank may even be a narrow barrier between an interior and the exterior sea, and much do I regret...
עמוד 126 - ... feet. In the first twenty leagues the ragged tops of some inland mountains were visible over it; but during the remainder of its long course the bank was the limit of our view.
עמוד 88 - A great portion of the country described in this Journal has never before been visited by any European. The Eastern coast of Short's Bay was for the first time seen and explored during the progress of these expeditions.
עמוד 90 - ... are constantly associated, so that we very much doubt whether any reader will lay aside the book, large as it is, without regret. In some parts you have all the breathless excitement of a voyage of discovery, and sail up new rivers, and explore new lands, while elsewhere your thoughts are directed to the tracks of commerce and political speculation. Altogether the work is a charming specimen of nautical literature, written in a pure, flexible, terse, and elegant style, and bespeaks every where...
עמוד 88 - It is not with the slightest hope of satisfying curiosity, or to anticipate the interest which the public in general, and geographers especially, always feel in enterprises of this nature, but merely to give such a sketch of the principal features of the expedition as may serve to direct those who are desirous of obtaining information respecting a portion of this remarkable...